Comics and Books

Devil's Due is putting out Stef Hutchinson and Jeff Zornow's Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode this month. The four part comic takes places between Halloween 2 and H20: "As the only survivor of Michael Myers’ rampage through the small town of Haddonfield on Halloween night, 1978, Laurie Strode is haunted by the memories of her encounter with evil itself. To make things worse, she is convinced Michael Myers is still out there, ready to strike again-- and the only person who believes her is Dr. Sam Loomis!"

Last month Dynamite started releasing New Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts. The four part comic is written by Brandon Jerwa, with art by Jonathan Lau and covers by Dennis Calero. "Meet the Ghost Squadron, a black-ops Viper team that calls the Pegasus home. Separated from the Pegasus at the time of the Holocaust, they join forces with a freelance salvage team and their ship, Orion's Pride. After the apocalypse, unlike their fellow survivors on the Galactica, the Ghost Squadron isn't looking for Earth - they're just trying to stay alive."

Associate Publisher Marco Pavia has said Tokyopop will release a graphic novel based on the TV franchise CSI called CSI: Interns. Written by Sekou Hamilton and illustrated by Steven Cummings, it'll be about "a group of teenaged interns in the Las Vegas Criminal Investigations Unit. The interns discover that a body in the morgue is one of their own." Planned release September 2009.

No Starch Press will translate and release Ohmsha's Understanding Through Manga series. The non-fiction manga guides teach technical or educational topics with comics. No Starch will eight books by the end of 2009, starting with The Manga Guide to Databases in December 2008 and The Manga Guide to Statistics in January. Other subjects will include physics, molecular biology, electricity, and relativity.

Dark Horse Comics will post one new chapter a week of Kim Young-Oh's supernatural adventure manhwa series Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man for free on its website.